In the 2009-10 season we showed films in the following mini-season:
- Alternate Views of WWII
- American Political Documentary
- Apocalypse and Beyond
- Chinese Cinema
- Extreme Cinema
- French Films About Film
- John Sayles
- Lost Classics of Irish Cinema
- Mafiosos of the World
- Mario Bava
- Native American Cinema
- Pre Code Hollywood
- Rediscovered Cinema of the GDR (Bonus season)
- Sidney Lumet
- Silent Comedy
- Spaghetti westerns
- Weimar Cinema
The films in each season were as follows:
Alternate Views of WWII
The Burmese Harp
Kon Ichikawa | Japan | 1956 | 116 minutes
Sharks and Little Fishes
Frank Wisbar | West Germany | 1957 | 120 minutes
Es gaschah am 20 Juli / Jackboot Mutiny
G W Pabst | West Germany | 1955 | 75 minutes
Fires on the Plain
Kon Ichikawa | Japan | 1959 | 108 minutes
Stalingrad / Dogs Do You Want to Live Forever
Frank Wisbar | West Germany | 1959 | 97 minutes
Wings
Larisa Shepitko | USSR | 1966 | 85 minutes
American Political Documentary
Primary
Robert Drew | USA | 1960 | 60 minutes
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Robert Drew | USA | 1963 | 52 minutes
The Times of Harvey Milk
Rob Epstein | USA | 1984 | 90 minutes
The McCarthy Years
Various | USA | 1991 | 114 minutes
The Weather Underground
Sam Green / Bill Siegel | USA | 2002 | 92 minutes
Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style
Paul Stekler | USA | 2004 | 0 minutes
One Bright Shining Moment
Stephen Vittoria | USA | 2005 | 123 minutes
Apocalypse and Beyond
The Earth Dies Screaming
Terence Fisher | UK | 1962 | 62 minutes
The Creation of the Humanoids
Wesley Barry | USA | 1962 | 75 minutes
2019: After the Fall of New York
Sergio Martino | Italy / France | 1983 | 96 minutes
Conquest
Lucio Fulci | Italy / Spain / Mexico | 1983 | 88 minutes
Night of the Comet
Thom Eberhart | USA | 1984 | 95 minutes
The Quiet Earth
Geoff Murphy | New Zealand | 1985 | 91 minutes
Last Night
Don McKellar | Canada / France | 1998 | 94 minutes
Chinese Cinema
Goddess
Yonggang Wu | China | 1934 | 85 minutes
Street Angel
Muzmi Yuan | China | 1937 | 87 minutes
Spring in a Small Town
Mu Fei | China | 1948 | 93 minutes
A Song at Midnight
Weibang Maxu | China | 1937 | 113 minutes
The Spring River Flows East
Chusheng Cai / Junli Zheng | China | 1947 | 190 minutes
An Orphan on the Street
Ming Zhao / Gong Yan | China | 1949 | 70 minutes
Extreme Cinema
Blood of the Beasts
Georges Franju | France | 1949 | 20 minutes
Carne
Gaspar Noe | France | 1991 | 40 minutes
Aftermath
Nacho Cerda | Spain | 1994 | 30 minutes
Nekromantik
Jorg Buttgereit | West Germany | 1987 | 75 minutes
In a Glass Cage
Agustin Villaronga | Spain | 1987 | 110 minutes
Fight for Your Life
Robert Endelson | USA | 1977 | 80 minutes
The House on the Edge of the Park
Ruggero Deodato | Italy | 1980 | 91 minutes
Farewell Uncle Tom
Gaultiero Jacopetti / Franco Prosperi | Italy | 1971 | 123 minutes
French Films About Film
Le Mepris / Contempt
Jean-Luc Godard | France / Italy | 1963 | 103 minutes
La Nuit Americaine / Day for Night
Francois Truffaut | France / Italy | 1973 | 115 minutes
The Eye of Vichy / L’Oeil de Vichy
Claude Chabrol | France | 1993 | 110 minutes
Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas | France | 1996 | 99 minutes
CQ
Roman Coppola | USA / France | 2001 | 98 minutes
Laissez-passer
Bertrand Tavernier | Spain / France / Germany | 2002 | 170 minutes
John Sayles
Honeydripper
John Sayles | USA | 2007 | 124 minutes
Casa de los babys
John Sayles | USA / Mexico | 2003 | 95 minutes
Lone Star
John Sayles | USA | 1996 | 135 minutes
The Secret of Roan Inish
John Sayles | USA / Ireland | 1994 | 103 minutes
Eight Men Out
John Sayles | USA | 1988 | 119 minutes
Baby its You
John Sayles | USA | 1983 | 105 minutes
Lost Classics of Irish Cinema
Irish Destiny
George Dewhurst | Ireland / UK | 1926 | 73 minutes
Mise Eire / My Ireland
George Morrison | Ireland | 1959 | 88 minutes
Saoirse? / Freedom?
George Morrison | Ireland | 1961 | 92 minutes
Rocky Road to Dublin
Peter Lennon | Ireland | 1968 | 69 minutes
Poitin
Bob Quinn | Ireland | 1979 | 65 minutes
Janey Mary
Paul Brady | Ireland | 2007 | 20 minutes
Kings
Tom Collins | Ireland / UK | 2007 | 88 minutes
Mafiosos of the World
Salvatore Giuliano
Francesco Rosi | Italy | 1962 | 123 minutes
Le Mani Sulla Citta
Francesco Rosi | Italy / France | 1963 | 105 minutes
Battles Without Honour and Humanity
Kinki Fukasaku | Japan | 1973 | 102 minutes
The Harder They Come
Perry Henzell | Jamaica | 1972 | 120 minutes
The Mark of Cain
Alix Lambert | USA / Russia | 2000 | 73 minutes
Election
Johnnie To | Hong Kong | 2005 | 100 minutes
Mario Bava
Hercules in the Haunted World
Mario Bava | Italy | 1961 | 91 minutes
The Whip and the Body
Mario Bava | Italy / France | 1963 | 91 minutes
Planet of the Vampires
Mario Bava | Italy / Spain | 1965 | 88 minutes
Five Dolls for an August Moon
Mario Bava | Italy | 1970 | 88 minutes
Four Times That Night
Mario Bava | Italy / West Germany | 1972 | 95 minutes
Rabid Dogs
Mario Bava | Italy | 1974 | 94 minutes
Native American Cinema
Imprint
Michael Linn | USA | 2007 | 84 minutes
Coyote Waits
Jan Egleson | USA | 2003 | 107 minutes
Dreamkeeper
Steve Barron | Canada / USA | 2003 | 174 minutes
The Business of Fancydancing
Sherman Alexei | USA | 2002 | 103 minutes
Dance me Outside
Bruce McDonald | Canada | 1995 | 84 minutes
Pow-wow Highway
Jonathan Wacks | USA | 1989 | 88 minutes
Pre Code Hollywood
Night Nurse
William Wellman | USA | 1931 | 72 minutes
Red-Headed Woman
Jack Conway | USA | 1932 | 79 minutes
Three on a Match
Mervyn LeRoy | USA | 1932 | 63 minutes
Wild Boys of the Road
William Wellman | USA | 1933 | 68 minutes
Female
Michael Curtiz | USA | 1933 | 60 minutes
Heroes for Sale
William Wellman | USA | 1933 | 71 minutes
Rediscovered Cinema of the GDR
Rotation
Wolfgang Staudte | East Germany | 1949 | 84 minutes
Kaiser’s Lackey
Wolfgang Staudte | East Germany | 1951 | 105 minutes
The Second Track
Joachim Kunert | East Germany | 1962 | 80 minutes
Carbide and Sorrel
Frank Beyer | East Germany | 1963 | 80 minutes
Hot Summer
Joachim Hasler | East Germany | 1968 | 91 minutes
The Legend of Paul and Paula
Heiner Carow | East Germany | 1973 | 106 minutes
Your Unknown Brother
Ulrich Weiss | East Germany | 1981 | 103 minutes
The Architects
Peter Kahane | East Germany | 1990 | 97 minutes
Sidney Lumet
Fail-Safe
Sidney Lumet | USA | 1964 | 112 minutes
The Pawnbroker
Sidney Lumet | USA | 1964 | 116 minutes
The Hill
Sidney Lumet | UK | 1965 | 123 minutes
The Offense
Sidney Lumet | UK / USA | 1972 | 112 minutes
Network
Sidney Lumet | USA | 1976 | 121 minutes
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Sidney Lumet | USA / UK | 2007 | 117 minutes
Silent Comedy
Wild and Woolly
John Emerson | USA | 1917 | 47 minutes
The Cook and Other Treasures
Various | USA | 1918 | 90 minutes
Laugh with Max Linder!
Various | France | 1920 | 90 minutes
The Stan Laurel Collection
Various | USA | 1925 | 90 minutes
The Charley Chase Collection, Vol. 1
Various | USA | 1926 | 90 minutes
Harry Langdon …The Forgotten Clown
Various | USA | 1926 | 90 minutes
Spaghetti westerns
Keoma
Enzo G. Castellari | Italy | 1976 | 105 minutes
Django Kill
Giulio Questi | Italy | 1967 | 117 minutes
The Price of Power
Tonino Valerii | Italy / Spain | 1968 | 96 minutes
The Mercenary
Sergio Corbucci | Italy / Spain | 1968 | 110 minutes
Face to Face
Sergio Sollima | Italy / Spain | 1967 | 108 minutes
Django the Bastard
Sergio Garrone | Italy | 1969 | 107 minutes
Weimar Cinema
The Holy Mountain
Arnold Fanck | Germany | 1926 | 106 minutes
Berlin Symphony of a Great City
Walter Ruttmann | Germany | 1927 | 79 minutes
Diary of a Lost Girl
Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | 1929 | 115 minutes
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Phil Jutzi | Germany | 1931 | 90 minutes
The Threepenny Opera
Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | 1931 | 112 minutes
Kuhle Wampe
Slatan Dudow | Germany | 1932 | 71 minutes